GRE Word List

MALADROIT

lacking adroitness : inept

The meaning of the word maladroit is lacking adroitness : inept.

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swaggerto conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner
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redressto set right : remedy
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
entreatto plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently
whetto sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone)
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